Castles and MountainsHohenschwangau Castle It is another warm and sunny spring day. From Feldkirch, Austria we drive about two hours to the town of Fussen in Bavaria, Germany.We had originally planned to come here when we were visiting Munich a number of years ago… unfortunately, we had attended Oktoberfest the previous day and were not up to visiting on the scheduled day. Fussen is in the mountains and there are …
Saturday May 12- We had a twelve hour stop in Rostock, Germany. The cruise ship was charging $25 Canadian per person for a shuttle into town. However when we spoke to the port security guard he told us there was a local bus around the corner. A day pass for this bus was $9 Canadian. Since Graham speaks German we assumed after his conversation with the bus driver that …
The alarm rang at 4:22AM. Graham and I quickly got ourselves together and speed walked to the train station where he got my ticket and helped me board the train to Frankfurt. I went to the airport very early because, as expected, KLM messed up my baggage reservation…again. I won’t get into it….for now. My flight was on time and I met John with no problem at Schipol Airport …
It’s official. Graham was trying to kill me. After his early morning class, we packed a lunch and headed on a hike to the top of the Holy Mountain (Heiligenberg). You can see Graham gleefully pointing to the top of the mountain from his street. Walking through the town, we stopped to check out an indicator of the flood water heights on certain years. The trek up the …
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